Garment or other hook.



E. W. KITE.

GARMENT OR OTHER HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I8. 1916.

Patented Dec. 5, 1916.

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ELIZABETH W. KITE, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIG-NOR 0F ONE-HALF TO SALLIE J. WOOD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT OR OTHER HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, l9f6.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ELIZABETH W. Krrn, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Garment or other Hook, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a hook for a garment or other purpose and consists in adapting the hook to be secured in position at the opposite ends thereof, so that it is prevented from shifting in lateral and longitudinal directions on the fabric to which the hook is applied, slipping and buckling on the fabric.

The invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, as long as they are included in the scope of the claims.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a garment hook embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 represents a top or plan view thereof, Figs. 2 and 3 including a piece of fabric to which the hook is secured.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the body of the hook which is formed of wire and composed of the following members, the base 2, the bill 3, the hump 4, the attaching eyes 5, and the auxiliary eye 6, the latter being opposite to said eyes 5, and back of said hump. The base 2 consists of the side lengths 7, and the bill 3 is continuous of said lengths at one end of the hook. The eyes 5 are continuous of said lengths at the other end of the hook. Between said lengths is the shank 8 which carries the hump said shank being continuous of one of the eyes 5 in a direction toward the bill 3, so that said hump is located as usual between the back and bill, the term hump being conventional in the art, it being the projection which serves to retain an eye on the hook as well known.

The wire or material of which the hook is formed is continued from the hump inwardly or toward the shank 8 and curled or bent under the back of the hump by a partial coil extending from one base portion of the latter into the hump and so forms with the adjacent portion of the hump the auxiliary eye 6 as above referred to.

It will now be seen that the hook may be secured to a piece of fabric or other goods at opposite places, viz., at the eyes 5, and the auxiliary eye 6, in the present case by thread which is passed through and around the eyes 5 and across the base and through the eye 6 and stitched to the fabric or goods, and so the hook is held at both end portions in its place of service whereby it will not turn or slide on the fabric or goods and vicev versa, and the fabric or goods will not buckle on the hook, and the base of the hook will lie flat in position under all circumstances.

It will be seen furthermore that the hump a and eye 6 are removed from the bend 9 of the bill and back so that the attaching eye on the garment or goods, shown by the dotted circle Fig. 2, may occupy the space 10 between said bend and hump l and eye 6, and so have freedom of motion therein while resting against and playing on said bend during the use of the hook.

It will be seen furthermore that the eye 6 serves to stiffen the hump and support the same from within whereby the hump is not liable to be broken down by the pressure of the attaching eye in its passage into the hook and removal therefrom when it rides on the hook, the latter then yielding, this being permitted as the shank 8 is somewhat resilient in its nature and afterward resuming its normal position, this feature being usual.

As shown in the drawings, especially in Fig. 2, the partial coil in the hump which with the latter forms the eye 6 is a continuity of the hump 4: around the interior of the latter, in the present case to the left, so as to terminate approximately on the portion of the hump adjacent to the bend 9 of the bill and back of the hook; This leaves said portion of the hump sufficiently removed from said bend to form the space 10 which receives'the bend of the engaging-eye shown by the dotted circle in Fig. 2 as has been stated. Hence the hump is braced from within on two opposite side portions and one top. This vastly stiffens said hump especially where the front bend of the engaging-eye rides on and passes over the crown or top of the hump and prevents crushing in of said crown or top, while the latter, however, yields sufliciently as the said bend of the engaging-eye moves on said crown or top. Then the side portion of the hump at the space 10 is braced by the terminal portion .of the coil 6 which bears against said portion from within, and so that when said bend of the engaging eye is moved toward said portion of the hump, or vice versa, this being occasioned when the opposite members of a garment close toward each other, there is a plurality of thicknesses of material composed of the hook and coil, one Within the other to receive the thrust ofthe bend of the engaging eye there'- against, or the thrust of the hump against said bend.

It will be seen again that the raw-end terminal of the wire of the eye 6 is within the hump and so cannot present itself to the attaching eye to cause the latter to engage said terminal or pass under the eye 6 and consequently under the hump, while on the contrary, the portion of said eye toward the bend 9 forms a curve that directs the attaching eye on the withdrawal of the latter from the hook to the crown of the hump, and so guard it from passing under the eye 6 and improperly interlocking with the hump from within.

Having thus described my invention what Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

end comprising an eye which is continuous 35 of said hump and located back of the same, said eye extending around said hump under the crown thereof toward the portion of the hump adjacent to the bend of the bill and the back of the hook.

2. In a hook having a hump of the char acter stated, means on the body for attachment thereof to the place of service at the bill end of said body comprising an eye which is continuous inwardly from said hiunp on the back of the latter and removed from the adjacent bend of the bill, said eye extending from the said hump around the interior opposite sides of the crown p01 tion of said hump and under said crown terminating on the side of the hump adjacent to said bend.

ELIZABETH W. KITE. Witnesses JOH S. WIEDERSHEIM, N. BUSSINGER.

by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D O. 

